Improved animal-trap



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MPETERS, PNOTO-UTMOGRAPHEFQ, WASHINGTON. D. C

To all whom it may concern:

new seat am ammo Letters Patent .Zl'o. 100,779, dated March 15, 1870.

v YRoN W. .LYMAN, or oHIf'oAeo, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVED ANIMAL-TRAP The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making part of the same.

Be it known that I, MYRON W. LYMAN, of Chicago,

in the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and improved Animal-Trap; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and

\ exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification. f y

i This invention relates to improvements in animaltraps, and consists in the arrangement on' the top of a cage, preferably in a) groove therein, of one or more pivoted tilting cylinders, leading under an arched cover to a place where the bait is secured, so as to entice the animals into the said cylinders and to the unsu'p ported ends, which will be caused, by the weightot' the animals, to tilt down and dcliver theminto the cage, from which escape is prevented by the return of the cylinders;

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of my improved trap, and

Figure 2 is a transversesection of the same A is a cage of perforated sheet metal, or other articulated substance,'havinga large groove, Bin the top, with "a long slotcnt in the central part leading into the cage. t

This slot-is covered for the most part by an arched Y shaped cover, D, over the central part, and protecting I a baitsupport, E, between the tilting ends of the cylpivots G, so as to afi'ord apparent admission to the bait, but so placed over the slot 0 that when the'animals approaching the bait pass beyond the pivots, they will tilt downward and deliver them vinto the Patentport, E, of one or more tilting cylinders 1 arranged inslots in the top of the case uudera cap, D, and either in grooves or depressions in the top, or not, all substantially asspecified.

MYR-ON .W. LYMAN.

Witnesses:

inders F of sheet metal arranged in the grooves oncage below; and as soon as they are delivered of the I elaim'as new and desire to secure by Letters The combination, with a case, A, and a bait-supe 

